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NVIDIA Question
by David St.Clair 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

This may be a dumb question, but why can't Redhat distribute NVIDIA binary drivers? In NVIDIA's licence (http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html) it says: "2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)." So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution? If it's a GPL thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at least give the option to the user? Thanks, -- David St.Clair dstclair(a)cs.wcu.edu

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Mouse goes crazy
by Jonathan Villa 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Ok, I have had Yarrow working well for a while now, but yesterday I started experiencing some odd issues with my mouse. All of a sudden it stops working correctly. The only thing that seems to fix is to kill X and run mouse-test, then restart. Any ideas? Also, I have FC 1 running on a desktop which is hooked up to a KVM switch. Whenever I go to another PC, and return, the same thing happens, the mouse goes crazy. ???

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Mouse Wheel gone
by Christian Menzel 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Since the latest xorg-X11 upgrade I receive the already mentioned XKB error and the mouse wheel is not working anymore. Has anybody seen this behavior? Regards Chris

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Re: NFS failure
by Fulko.Hew＠sita.aero 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Damian Menscher <menscher(a)uiuc.edu>@redhat.com on 04/07/2004 04:57:13 PM wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > I'm getting failure messages on my nfs mounts i.e. : > > > > mount to NFS server 'music.elkins' failed: server is down. > > > > nsfd appears to be running and I didn't see anything suspicious in the logs. > > The servers are up and running and have other clients connected. > > You didn't mention what steps you took to debug it: > > Can you ping the server? > What is the output of rpcinfo -p servername? > Does the server have access restrictions (firewall, TCP Wrappers, etc)? I have the same symptoms... rpcinfo says that nfs et.al. are running. Something has changed in test 2, since the same PC running RH9 accesses that host just fine.

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autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken; and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what exactly needs to be fixed. Consider something like this: LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no)) Here's what happens on x86_64: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5 /tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main': /home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to `res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5147: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [ blah blah blah ] | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | char res_query (); | int | main () | { | res_query (); | ; | return 0; | } The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work. The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64 in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype. So, what now?

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Desktop Development Specialization
by Joel Juliano 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

What if Fedora Core development was divided in two divisions, the GNOME division and the KDE division, the releases will be available to be GNOME-only or KDE-only releases on seperate iso's, the GNOME ISO will specializes only on GNOME softwares and applications. There will be a micro-managed bug fixing for GNOME-only related softwares, the effort will be concentrating on much more focused approach than the traditional (hybrid ISO's), same to the KDE ISO, wherein include a KDE-only related (or specialized) softwares and applications.

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[ANNOUNCE] Aurora Build-1.92 (Code Name Tangerine)
by Tom Callaway 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi folks, We now have a full set of sparc packages that match up to Fedora Core 2, and its name is Tangerine. Did you know that of the top ten hits for Tangerine on Google, none of them have anything to do with the fruit? You should eat more tangerines, they're quite tasty and good for you. But I digress. Like the previous release (1.91), its not an installable tree so again this means no ISOs. I'm going to repeat this one more time: THERE ARE NO ISOS FOR 1.92. Why? Because anaconda is hard, and people didn't want to wait another 6 months for me to figure out what is broken. However, if anyone is willing to try on their own to get this working, we're happily accepting patches. But, unless someone else takes up the charge, this tree branch will stop at 1.92. If someone fixes anaconda so that the installer actually works past keyboard selection, I'll spin a new tree. In the meantime, we're refocusing the effort on a new tree, which is currently going to be based on Fedora Core 3. You can follow the daily notes for this work here: http://auroralinux.org/journal.php Now, I have yumified the tree, so if you're feeling really brave, you can always point yum at it, and try to upgrade that way. A version of yum for Aurora 1.0 is here: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/1.0/yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm If you're running 1.91, you should be able to use the yum in that tree. Going from 1.91 to 1.92 is reportedly a fairly painless process. If you're a listed mirror site, please sync the build-1.92 directory, and chime in. The primary directory is currently at: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/build-1.92/ (and) ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-1.92/ Now, for the known bugs: The "rpm" package in 1.92 is a little broken on sparc32 systems. Its my fault. Fixed packages are already available from: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/updates/1.92/ (and) ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/updates/1.92/ A temporary workaround is to run: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. Build 1.92 uses SILO 1.4.8 which should work fine. It seems to occasionally burp when you're trying to tab completion, but I can't reproduce this consistently. If it breaks for you, let me know. There is no SMP kernel for sparc32, upstream has marked this as broken. Any other bugs that you find? Please either email me or file them in bugzilla.auroralinux.org, under Corona. Last but not least, we've setup a hardware support matrix Wiki to keep track of what works and what doesn't. You can find it here: http://auroralinux.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HardwareCompatibility Thanks for your continued patience and support, ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill

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FC 3 issues
by Noah Silva [Mailing list] 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Several separate topics: I have two machine, one running FC3 stable (upgrades since RH8) and one running rawhide. Both show some of these issues. a.) Nautilus often doesn't update. I have the "Gamin" package installed, but I don't see a "gam*" daemon running. What could be checked? b.) Sometimes I plug in a device and HAL/GVM auto-mounts it, and pops up a nautilus window, but it never appears on the desktop. Then to unmount it, I have to use the command-line. (It also doesn't show up under "computer" in gnome). c.) Multimedia keys don't seem to work right. If I don't run acme, they don't work. If I run acme, it says "another application is using the keyboard" or something similar. I though acme was replaced (at least I remember the control panel UI changing.) d.) I saw in FC3T3 a nice wireless applet. That seems gone from the FC3 release. Someone told me it was merged into the "network" applet, and in fact I saw a nice screen-shot in a review of FC3 of this network applet, but the one I have doesn't have the features of the one in the screen-shot. Am I just confused or...? (The one I saw had a drop-down list of networks, etc.) ----------- FC2 -> FC3 Upgrade issues: 1. Vino doesn't get installed. (on 3 systems so far). 2. The new IME system UI (gimlet) doesn't get installed either, but the old one gets erased! (on 2 systems so far). Also the IME help on the fedora site says to add "gimlet" to the panel, but even when installed, the app isn't listed in the applet list as "Gimlet" but something like "Imput Method Editor" (and the package name for yumisn't gimlet either). 3. On one of my friend's machines, the upgrade totally hosed the panel configuration. Thanks, Noah SILVA p.s.: feel free to ignore any of these already in bugzilla, I am looking in there now. Please add anything not in bugzilla, and I will contribute comments to any issue files if I am made aware of the issue #. None of these are high priorities, but I am willing to test any fixes, etc.

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JFS support in init scripts?
by Noah Silva [Mailing list] 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

I didn't see this in bugzilla, but then again it may be a "We don't officially support JFS" issue. I have several large JFS partitions andon every fecdora (and in rawhide now) there is an issue that if the machien is uncleanly shut down, I have to mount the drives manually at boot-up. To be clear: JFS doesn't auto-replay journal upon mounting, you have to run fsck.jfs to do that. I added hacks to my rc.local, but that doesn't help anyone else. thanks, noah silva

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Fedora Core 3 Test Update: grep-2.5.1-31.1
by Tim Waugh 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2004-463 2004-11-24 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : grep Version : 2.5.1 Release : 31.1 Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities. Description : The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep. You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Please test this updated grep package and report any findings, positive or negative, as a comment on this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140781 The aim is to improve performance when processing UTF-8 input, without causing any regressions (either in correctness or performance) with any character encoding. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Nov 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-31.1 - Fixed a bug in the fgrep patch, exposed by the dfa-optional patch (bug #138558). - Applied patch from Karsten Hopp to fix background colour problems with --color output (bug #138913). - Automatically disable DFA when processing multibyte input. GREP_USE_DFA environment variable overrides. - Remove mb-caching hack. - Better multibyte handling in EGexecute() and Fexecute(). - Don't need regex.c changes in grep-2.5-i18n.patch. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/ cea90779ae27dcd4c27790f65976e082 SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-31.1.src.rpm 19cd49eef88a130041161e23eb896dc0 x86_64/grep-2.5.1-31.1.x86_64.rpm a9d56e1f66184ecf1c3ab25e058cd2f1 x86_64/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-31.1.x86_64.rpm 06e4d27367080dfca4333b28d739d00e i386/grep-2.5.1-31.1.i386.rpm 51d51bff042de4f3d50465f48edbbd1f i386/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-31.1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$… ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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